China Heavyweight

Every film festival needs at least one powerful sports documentary—Yung Chang’s China Heavyweight is Rooftop’s, and it sounds like a technical knockout. In the wake of the Chinese government finally un-banning the sport of boxing, Chang’s all-access flick follows a former fighter turned trainer, Coach Qi Moxiang, whose class of teenage wannabe pugilists includes two boys with unique abilities. Setting the boxers’ coming-of-age experiences against a larger sociological backdrop, China Heavyweight seems like a larger-scale counterpart to this year’s Oscar-winning high school football doc Undefeated, which says a lot.